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Apple is bad news for the future of the Web

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12 points by richtr 10 years ago · 2 comments

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Falkon1313 10 years ago

> Apple, intentionally or not, is holding back the development of the web in 2016.

Like they've been holding back the development of games for years? I have a Mac for work, and it's good at what it does. But I wouldn't choose one for a home/personal PC. The lockin and limitations aren't worth it (not just for games, generally). It would be like using IE6 for web browsing.

If they choose to not keep up with web development, that's not going to hold web development back, it's going to hold Apple back, and make them obsolete. Currently, they have a good share of the 'devices used for web-browsing' market, but if they don't keep up, it'll dwindle to match their share of the gaming PC market.

  • Tiksi 10 years ago

    The difference is game developers generally don't care about the small Mac market and have no problem leaving it behind, that's not true for web where ios makes up a decent chunk of traffic.

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